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At the Instytut Sztuki Wyspa the archive is accompanied by a small exhibition featuring different generations of artists from Poland. Curated by Aneta Szyłak and Aleksandra Grzonkowska, this exhibition will present the following artists:
Angelika Fojtuch, Izabela Gustowska, Paulina Ołowska and Lucy McKenzie, Ewa Partum, Anna Szwajgier and Zorka Wollny, as well as Teresa Tyszkiewicz.
Opening programme on Friday, 23 March 2012:
18.00 Meet the curators Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer of re.act.feminism and Aneta Szyłak and Aleksandra Grzonkowska of Wyspa Institute of Art
19.00 Official opening
22.00 Concert in the Buffet Club
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The participating artists as presented at the Instytut Sztuki Wyspa are:
Ebtisam Abdulaziz AE, Marina Abramović RS, Helena Almeida PT, Eleanor Antin USA, Oreet Ashery IL/UK,
Antonia Baehr DE, Maja Bajević BA/FR/DE, Anne Bean UK, Anat Ben-David IL/UK, Renate Bertlmann AT,
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz DE, Nisrine Boukhari SY, Marijs Boulogne BE, Tania Bruguera CU/USA,
Maris Bustamante MX, Cabello/Carceller ES, Graciela Carnevale AR, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha KR/USA, Helen
Chadwick UK, Chicks on Speed DE, Lygia Clark BR, Colette USA, Nieves Correa ES, Laura Cottingham USA,
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen DK, Disband USA, Ines Doujak AT, Orshi Drozdik HU, Yingmei Duan CN/DE,
Diamela Eltit CL, VALIE EXPORT AT, Factory of Found Clothes RU, Esther Ferrer ES, Rose Finn-Kelcey UK,
Simone Forti IT/USA, (e.) Twin Gabriel DE, Regina José Galindo GT, Rimma Gerlovina &
Valeriy Gerlovin RU, Patrycja German PL, Ghazel IR/FR, Kate Gilmore USA, Mona Hatoum LB/UK/DE,
María Teresa Hincapié CO, Nan Hoover USA/DE, Sanja Iveković HR, Elżbieta Jabłońska PL,
Françoise Janicot FR, Joan Jonas USA, Anne Jud CH/DE/USA, Kirsten Justesen DK, Kanonklubben/Damebilleder DK,
Line Skywalker Karlström SE, Tina Keane UK, Amal Kenawy EG, Verica Kovacevska MK, Elena Kovylina RU,
Katarzyna Kozyra PL, Christina Kubisch DE, Verena Kyselka DE, Nicola L FR/USA, Latifa Laâbissi FR,
Leslie Labowitz USA, Suzanne Lacy USA, Katalin Ladik SR/HU, Sigalit Landau IL, Klara Lidén SE, Kalup
Linzy USA, Natalia LL PL, Léa Lublin AR, Manon CH, Jumana Manna USA, María Evelia Marmolejo CO,
Muda Mathis CH, Dóra Maurer HU, Mónica Mayer MX, Ana Mendieta CU/USA, Marta Minujín AR, Fina Miralles ES,
Linda Montano USA, Charlotte Moorman USA, Teresa Murak PL, Sands Murray-Wassink NL,
Rabbya Naseer & Hurmat Ul Ain PK, Lorraine O'Grady USA, Hannah O’Shea UK, Itziar Okariz ES,
Yoko Ono JP/USA, ORLAN FR, Tanja Ostojić RS/DE, Gina Pane IT/FR, Letícia Parente BR, Ewa Partum PL/ DE,
Jillian Peña USA, Performance Saga (Andrea Saemann CH & Katrin Grögel DE), Howardena Pindell USA,
Polvo de Gallina Negra MX, Yvonne Rainer USA, Egle Rakauskaite LT, Jytte Rex DK, Ulrike Rosenbach DE,
Martha Rosler USA, Boryana Rossa BU, María Ruido ES, Estíbaliz Sábada ES, Andrea Saemann CH,
Zorka Ságlová CZ, Christine Schlegel DE, Cornelia Schleime DE, Carolee Schneemann USA,
Miriam Sharon IL/ FR, Bonnie Ora Sherk USA, Barbara T. Smith USA, Cornelia Sollfrank DE,
Spiderwoman Theater USA, Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth M. Stevens USA, Sterle HR, Gabriele Stötzer DE,
Melati Suryodarmo ID/DE, Jinoos Taghizadeh IR, Milica Tomić RS, Mierle Laderman Ukeles USA,
Valie Export Society EE, Cecilia Vicuña CL, The Waitresses USA, Faith Wilding USA, Hannah Wilke USA,
Martha Wilson USA, Julita Wójcik PL, Nil Yalter EG/FR
Design and architecture archive modules: Matten Vogel D.O.I.
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Accompanying programme of lectures and workshops at the Wyspa Institute of Art, curated by Aneta Szyłak and Aleksandra Grzonkowska
Tuesday, 27 March, 6 pm
Ewa Małgorzata Tatar - Is Showing Feminist Art Feminist Curatorship?
In this lecture, Ewa Małgorzata Tatar will revisit exhibitions such as “Gender Check”, “Inside the Visible”, “WACK”, “re.act.feminism” and “Niezgrabne przedmioty” (Clumsy Objects). She will examine different strategies of working with viewers’ perception using the medium of an exhibition. Her particular interest within the context of feminist art concerns redefining the political as a way of repositioning the sensual beyond the objectifying gaze.
Ewa Małgorzata Tatar is an art critic and art historian. She is also the editor of Panoptikum magazine. As a curator, she co-operates with the Wyspa Art Institute in Gdańsk, the National Museum in Kracow and Korporacja Ha!art Publishers.
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 6 pm
Hubert Bilewicz - Considering the Matrix of Art: The Meta-Artistic Dimensions of Feminist Performance
In the last few decades, performance art made by women has become the main area for the vitality of female creativity, the affirmation of experiences and forms of female social and political activism. The re-definition of the place and the role of female artists, the models of the creative ethos and artistic priorities in a basically phallogocentric world of art de-constructs the mechanisms which govern this world, denounces institutions and revises artistic models as well as aesthetic habits of reception. Focusing on artistic dialogue, polemic, controversy and counter-proposals, in this lecture Hubert Bilewicz will analyse a selection of performances by artists such as Marina Abramović, Julita Wójcik and Angelika Fojtuch.
Hubert Bilewicz is an art historian and a lecturer at the University of Gdańsk.
Thursday, 12 April, 6 pm
Katarzyna Lewandowska - WAR – Women Art Revolution: Femininity, Body, Fetish. A `Creature-Artist´
The female artist became a Weird Creature, a Freak of Nature, a Peculiarity, an Exception, a Weirdo, because she denied nature (the nature of a woman). The essence of the art by the artists discussed in this lecture is total freedom, unleashed imagination, unrestrained desire, carnal love. They shamelessly tell about lust, the sensual perception of the world, “the parched body". Creation is a natural need and an inner necessity for these artists. They scoop up space and give it back, transformed under the form of perverse female phantasms – banal, crazy, ecstatic, dangerous and tabooed.
Katarzyna Lewandowska is an art historian, feminist, Buddhist and a lecturer of art history at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruñ.
Thursday, 19 April 2012, 6 pm
Julia Gierczak - Between the Imagined and the Real (and Reel ) – (Post)feminism according to Catherine Breillat ´
This lecture is devoted to selected films and quasi-films by the French cinema creator Catherine Breillat. It is an attempt to find lost coherence on the grounds of psychoanalytical theory, without which one cannot speak about (post)feminism in contemporary cinema. In this lecture, Julia Gierczak will tackle the interferences of psychoanalytical theory with various areas of pop culture, as seen in films such as Barbe Bleue or A Sleeping Beauty, and its oscillation around pornography in Romance and The Anatomy of Hell. These two extreme directions which Breillat takes simultaneously represent the most important poles of (post)feminism in contemporary audio-visual culture.
Julia Gierczak is a PhD student at the Department of Culture Studies of Gdańsk University, a film expert, a Polish philologist and a book editor. She is also a member of the editorial team of Panoptikum magazine.
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